We performed a comparison between Akamai App and API Protector and Cloudflare Web Application Firewall based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Web Application Firewall (WAF) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Akamai Web Application Protector is a good solution that provides basic web application protection."
"The most valuable feature is the DDoS protection, which is the main reason we got it."
"The product has a good UI."
"It gives us a report of traffic. It gives us a report of the day-to-day URL traffic, and it also gives an individual report. If we reach out to Akamai, they give us the IPs as well."
"The product is user-friendly."
"All the solution's features are very good."
"The CDN and the WAF features are the best."
"The solution can scale extremely well."
"The security features are valuable. The particular feature we use is called OWASP."
"The product has improved our security posture by blocking bad actors."
"Does a good job preventing web application attacks."
"We extensively use the solution every day. The solution is very stable; we haven’t seen any glitches."
"We like that there's load balancing, firewall capabilities, DDoS protection, et cetera, all covered by Cloudflare."
"Caching is the most valuable feature of Cloudflare Web Application Firewall."
"Someone with a basic understanding of networking and security will be able to implement the firewall's basic features within 15 minutes."
"It protects web applications efficiently."
"We are experimenting with EdgeWorkers to write our own code at the Edge level. It could grow to be much better."
"There are some issues with pushing configurations across a network. It still takes about 20 minutes and that means to retract it's another 20 minutes."
"Customer support has room for improvement."
"It's fine for a simple tool, but as I recall, if you encounter a lot of bots, scrapers, and other things, you'll need this tool bot and this other thing they offer called Bot Manager."
"It would be better if there weren't any issues with latency. We had latency issues, but I think they are all solved now."
"The interface is a little bit clunky and can be improved."
"The solution could offer even more integrations."
"I do not see any area for improvement. Akamai is already maintaining its own databases for the security concerns, vulnerabilities, and attacks that are there. If anything, they should have a solution in the infrastructure security area as well. They should not be only in cloud cybersecurity; they should also be in infrastructure security."
"Cloudflare Web Application Firewall should improve visibility for a customer."
"If they add logs history within the Cloudflare offering, that would be a great benefit."
"They have some limitations with third-party integrations."
"A key challenge arises when dealing with numerous integrations with HVAC systems. Depending on the specifics, there might be some configuration mismatches, which necessitate specific support."
"There could be an option to duplicate the cluster to maintain the consistency of rules."
"The platform's control features related to real-time authentication and response time need improvement."
"The notification part could be improved. It's very much connected to Web Application Firewall, rate-limiting, and DDoS protection."
"It would be ideal if the solution offered better log integration and more integration with different platforms."
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Akamai App and API Protector is ranked 8th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 27 reviews while Cloudflare Web Application Firewall is ranked 7th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 16 reviews. Akamai App and API Protector is rated 8.4, while Cloudflare Web Application Firewall is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Akamai App and API Protector writes "Easy to learn and gives us a report of traffic". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cloudflare Web Application Firewall writes "A cloud solution for web application firewall protection with rate-limiting, managed, and custom firewall rules". Akamai App and API Protector is most compared with Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, AWS WAF, Prolexic, AWS Shield and Arbor DDoS, whereas Cloudflare Web Application Firewall is most compared with Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, AWS WAF, Fortinet FortiWeb, Azure Front Door and NGINX App Protect. See our Akamai App and API Protector vs. Cloudflare Web Application Firewall report.
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